Race 7 of Wednesday Night Racing

[Dave Dougall]

Wednesday Night Racing brought out 14 boats for the great warm weather and nice winds out of the south at about 10 knots.  The RC set a tetrohedron between Speaker Heck and the Canoe Islands.  The start line was about 1.1 miles to the north with a W4 course.  At mark 1 was Woot @ 14:40 followed by Stinger, Wind Machine and Cut Loose.  The down wind run was exciting for everyone with the wind holding at about 8 to 10 knots.  Mark 2 had Woot leading the fleet @25:33 followed by Stinger, Wind Machine and Cut Loose.  Woot had a great beat back to mark 3 leading the fleet @ 41:30.  Woot with their asymetrical chute has to take wider angles than most other boats and seemed to me to stay on starboard jib too long to the finish allowing Stinger to nip them out at the finish for line honors and 1st on corrected time.  Cut Loose had a great beat to the 3rd mark and finished 2nd on CT followed by Wind Machine for 3rd.  Attached are the results for Wednesday Night.